154 Quotes

“Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow.
"You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“The worldwide phenomenon that came to be known as "Beatlemania" was not merely a matter of taste in music or preference for a genre in film. It came to represent a global media discourse drawing on the rising importance, visibility, self-awareness and cultural power of youth, especially the emergence of girls' subcultures, while the conventions and values of the older generation came under pressure”
― Liora Hendelman-Baavur, Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions

“Zoey understood that mothering was in the details you never saw. And the lack of it was the things you always noticed.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds